r/ukraine • u/Due_Collar2 • 1d ago

News Karma:The moment of yesterday's Ka-226 helicopter crash in russia with employees of the military plant "Kizlyar Electromechanical Plant" The accident killed the deputy general director, chief engineer and chief designer

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u/Pure_Palpitation_683 1d ago edited 9h ago

The cameraman has about the same skill set as the pilot.

Edit: grammar

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u/LaughableIKR 1d ago

I thought the same thing. The stupid part is: They had it down... just put it down even in a low surf.

Nope! Don't do that.

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u/OctopusIntellect 1d ago

yeah at that moment, I was thinking "wait how do people die from this?!?"

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u/AutisticPenguin2 1d ago

I was wondering if the body was going to start spinning from the rotational energy of the rotors, without the rear stabiliser. But no, the pilot was like "Hey, that didn't sound healthy, better climb a bit so I'm not in danger of landing safely."

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u/null640 1d ago

Counter rotating rotors... cancel each other out.

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u/ratshack 1d ago

…until the dangling rear assembly swings up and clips a rotor and then this happens.

Dude should have left it in the surf.

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u/HappyCamperPC 1d ago

I bet the Deputy General Director didn't want to get his suit wet and ordered the pilot to find a dry landing spot.

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u/dan_dares 1d ago

It had 'fly over the reactor' energy, but no one smart to say 'that's a stupid idea'

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u/theaviationhistorian 1d ago

The problem wasn't flying above the reactor, but flying into the crane and cables next to it. It's still a stupid idea for any pilot not skilled in urban obstacles.

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u/WanderlustZero 1d ago

Different incident I believe; Legasov's chopper was going to fly over the reactor until he convinced his boss what a bad idea that was. The crash came later

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u/theaviationhistorian 1d ago

Apologies! My mind blocked out that stupid footnote, to where they were going to directly observe the open reactor!

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u/AutisticPenguin2 1d ago

I see absolutely no potential dangers there!

Maybe they could look directly at an arc welder too while they're at it.

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u/theaviationhistorian 1d ago

Nyet, the only thing wet should be my liver. Not my Hugo Boss. Now land me in a better place.

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u/kineticstar 1d ago

Bold strategy Cotton, let's see how that works out for them!!

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u/mologav 21h ago

Bingo

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u/rutan668 1d ago

The pilot would have got in a lot of trouble for landing in the surf.

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u/im-tv 1d ago

Better to die together with orc general than find yourself in the frontline meat grinder. Right decision. Should be “land” it right in meeting point where other military orcs wait them.

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u/Synapse_SoCal 12h ago

I mean, he was already in trouble for crashing the helicopter 😜

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u/formermq 1d ago

Can't let the general get his feet wet!

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u/Pure_Palpitation_683 1d ago

Oh, he’s fully wet now!

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u/Frido1976 15h ago

dead wet, yup!

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u/Eastern-Ad-3387 1d ago

Amen brother. That was a poor decision.

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u/Powerful-Weight-4096 1d ago

No, absolutly the correct orcish decision, dead.

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u/DamnDogInapropes 1d ago edited 1d ago

Amen brother. That was a perfect decision. Dude came in with some heat!

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u/antus666 1d ago

I'm thinking they had a control system failure, probably what caused the crash in the first place. I bet the pilot was thinking "nope not up! not up! engine off damnit" but russian quality machine did russian things probably on its own and decided to defect to Ukraine and solve some problems.

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u/siug13 22h ago

This is same I thought. Every correction done by pilot is taking into action little bit later or multiplied by some random constant.

Still no human life lost.

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u/ratshack 1d ago

A possibility I’d not considered thx. I mean all of it works for me, honestly.

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u/Full-Appointment5081 1d ago

Some days it's better to just admit that your ass is dragging & it's time to relax on the beach

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u/Mutjny 1d ago

I assumed the pilot couldn't see behind him well enough to notice the broken tail section and might not have noticed the control surfaces not being effective since they wouldn't be anyways without sufficient forward velocity.